Already more than half the world's sugar Is derived from European beetroot. Science, chemistry, and mechanical skill have combined lo transfer the habitat of a prime necessity of life from the tropics, where only it was. supposed it could be produced, into the northern latitudes. Science has shown the way to prepare the soil for it, has overcome -11 the mechanical problems necessary to the extraction of the sugar, made its cultivation profitable, and given employment to tens of thousands of wage-earners, and all this within the last twenty years.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2502, 6 September 1890, Page 5
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